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Okay...so basically, you've got six pieces of information on each player. For some players all or some of them maybe unknown.

Position:
Does anyone rank based on position as a factor -- what they're training for example? I also wonder if I rank PF's before C's and PG's before SF's if I'm going to more well rounded player?

Of course, that how I ended up with a 6'2" PF last season...

Star Rating & Grade Rating
Seems like most people use these to do most of their rankings. Especially if you don't have a lot of secondary info on most players.

Seems like Grade Rating is just a more precise version of Star Rating -- it doesn't seem to be effected by Potential (otherwise, I wouldn't have a 5 star, A+ guard with 2 potential, right?).

Potential Rating
For me, this is really an unknown. Obviously I rate the higher potential within a given rating higher.

But the big question is does a 5 potential, 4 star player get ranked above a 4 potential, 5 star player. What about a 5 potential, 3 star player?

Fortunately, I don't have a lot of those choices this year.

Age
18 is obviously better than 19 year olds, but like potential how much is an extra year worth?

Is a 5 star, 19 yo worth more than a 4 star, 18 yo? What about 5 potential, 19 yo versus a 4 potential, 18 yo?

I guess one could check the Transfer list to see valuations...but there is a lot of uncertainty here.

Box Score
This I've found very difficult to use and have used it mostly as a tie breaker. I also look at things like turnovers, foul & assists to figure if a player might have decent secondary skills...but because its one game, how much weight can you put in it?

You comments/questions encouraged!

Steve
Bruins

potential has a lot to do with how good you want train those players? 2-3 Season with 2 Position training, ain't a big problem problem for all Stars i even recognize anything with 2 season singl position training but i'm training guards and potential could work with salary :)

And even then it slows down slowly so it takes a while until he catch up some missing skills at the beginning. Age and Grade are more important for me, even if try to avoid one Star of potential.

Well I do not remember having this problem last year-my first-but I seem to be thoroughly confused this year by the draft information.

The max potential my guys have is 3 balls, one guy has an A and one guy has 5 stars with no potential.

And what do you make of the box scores? It seems to me they have to mean something, otherwise they are totally worthless. So what does anyone make of the box scores?

the boxscores are tiebreakers for me, but they seen to be pretty meaningless. Last year i got an Player who scores are lot, and hit alots of three but his JR ain't that good.

The main thing you should at is the grade of the player i my opion, when you comparing players with the same grade the potential and the age become quite important. I think the age is more important, but extrrem potential players could change it i rate an 19J 5 grade player with 5 potential at top, and i will rate an 1 potential 18 year old at the botton at the 5 grade players but betwenn 2-4 Stars potential i would go for age.

thanks for that.

I have a 5 star player no age or potential.

And an 18yo 5 star 3 potential A rating.

I am leaning towards the 5 star no age or potential. thoughts?

Well I got absolute garbage so who knows.

Can't wait to see the draft results.